How would you like to design a bitcoin banknote? - page 34.

unclemantis

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Quote from: BitPay Business Solutions on July 14, 2012, 12:22:21 PM

Yep, Leonardo Da Vinci.

Here's an update with a little addition from Albert Einstein

Would be neat to have a different quote from a long list of quotations. Maybe perhaps a picture of a different famous person in science or math history that would randomly be printed.

Maybe start a collect-ability series? Funded note is worth more to a collector than a spent note?

This has potential!

Thoughts?

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Yep, Leonardo Da Vinci.

Here's an update with a little addition from Albert Einstein

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What about people with just black and white ink jet printers AND single color toner laser printers?

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Quote from: gsan on July 14, 2012, 02:14:53 AM

The thing I really like about this background, that I never really thought about until after I saw it, is the fact that color transitions are a common feature of cash, and this mimics that. I realize that cash uses transitions of special ink colors as a security feature and this won't mimic the security aspect of it, this background nevertheless does a great job of invoking cash.

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Would the private and public key need to be spelled out or are we just assuming that QR-Codes will be the norm.

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Quote from: casascius on July 14, 2012, 12:12:09 PM

Quote from: BitPay Business Solutions on July 14, 2012, 11:56:39 AM

I don't recognize who this is, can you spoil?

Leonardo DiVinchi I think

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Quote from: BitPay Business Solutions on July 14, 2012, 11:56:39 AM

I don't recognize who this is, can you spoil?

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Here's a start, with everything on one side

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Paper will still have valuable uses though.... Vouchers, gift cards, etc.

Lethos

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I have a feeling if I ever went down this route, it would just end up as an extension of my business card.
A means to leave with someone a card, to invoice me, or send payments. Not necessarily a means to give payment there and then.

Pretty sure by the time it's gone mainstream enough, "there's an app for that", will be a more common thing rather than still using paper.

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I like the fractal backgrounds but, as they are single use, would like to see them in black and white.

Black and white printer cartridges are cheaper !

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Agreed, I like all of the options and DAMN that bill looks sexy.

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By nature they must be disposable.

They could be used by a merchant to return change (though any sane merchant will make their own bills for change-giving to take advantage of the advertising opportunity). If used to return change, the change could be stolen by the merchant (or the clerk at the merchant etc) - ideally the amounts printed by users on bills would keep the change amounts low enough to make them not worth stealing.

Since the ideal use of bills requires printing lots of them to stay safe, the amount of ink used on each one is a serious consideration. On the other hand, I like that blue background. If it were SVG, the page hosting it could easily hide or display elements at will, so users could choose via a simple checkbox whether they wanted the beautiful (but ink-sipping) background versus the cheap. And I am a big fan of the idea of using fractals as art here.

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I suppose the concept of bills could work, but they'd all be spend-once only (because the acceptor would have to scan it, destroy the bill, and then transfer the coins over to themselves, to ensure you don't defraud them later).

If someone could make them spendable multiple times, that would be amazing, but I don't know how this is possible. Unless there was a trusted third party that could do a multi signature on the coins (so that, to redeem a bill, you need to sign it with both the bill's private key and the trusted third party's private key). In this way, the bill could be verified to have the correct balance, and also be spent many times before redemption.

However: what would prevent someone from simply duplicating the bill, spend it, and then redeem the copy? Or just spend the same bill mutiple times? So it still doesn't work... There must be a way though because damn, it would be awesome.

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Quote from: gsan on July 14, 2012, 02:14:53 AM

I was toying with the idea of using fractal backgrounds, for their scalability and as an allusion to Bitcoin's mathematical nature.

The design isn't finished, but if you like it I can work on it some more and produce a few templates of different sizes. Resolution isn't a problem but I'm wondering what else I can put on it and whether to add some fine print.

And here's a variation with a prominent mathematician:

Although it would be pretty hard to relate Khayyam to Bitcoin, I like how this illustration worked with the rest of the design. If there is interest, we might even commission an artist to draw us a Gavin that watches over the QR-code.

Those look great! I don't care for the idea of advertising on the bills mentioned previously, though. Seems tacky

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Fractal designs could look very nice, their are both very simple and complex ones. Aswell as 2nd and 3d ones.
I've done them before in my design work.

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Quote from: gsan on July 14, 2012, 02:14:53 AM

I was toying with the idea of using fractal backgrounds, for their scalability and as an allusion to Bitcoin's mathematical nature.

Luv it!

The last one really looks like real money.

Further I think since you are printing this with a computer the number version should be used, not the empty field one. You would use a dedicated program to print a bunch of different denominations with the amounts pre-printed.

Could you make a version that's black and white and more simple to use less ink?

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I was toying with the idea of using fractal backgrounds, for their scalability and as an allusion to Bitcoin's mathematical nature.

The design isn't finished, but if you like it I can work on it some more and produce a few templates of different sizes. Resolution isn't a problem but I'm wondering what else I can put on it and whether to add some fine print.

And here's a variation with a prominent mathematician:

Although it would be pretty hard to relate Khayyam to Bitcoin, I like how this illustration worked with the rest of the design. If there is interest, we might even commission an artist to draw us a Gavin that watches over the QR-code.

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I have always said that if I were to mint gold or silver coins for distribution I would just offer advertising on part of the coin to pay for the minting costs. That way, people could get the coins at the cost of the metal.

It would not work so well with this application as the paper is going to be thrown away and will not be widely circulated.

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Quote from: unclemantis on July 13, 2012, 08:01:46 PM

Could even go as far as selling advertising space on the these bills!

This is kind of sad. Imagine ads for mcdonalds on USD.

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